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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"fmhess@users.sourceforge.net" <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@mev.co.uk>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: serial2002: quiet NULL pointer sparse noise
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:48:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608094842.GM4400@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD1C0D2.8060704@mev.co.uk>

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:07:30AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> I wonder if it also issues that warning for a struct initializer such as
> {0} where the first member of the struct is a pointer, or would it
> expect you to use {NULL} which is more confusing when the struct
> contains a mixture of pointer and non-pointer members?
> 

It does warn about that.  The fix is to just say:

	struct foo bar = {};

regards,
dan carpenter

      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08  0:14 [PATCH] staging: comedi: serial2002: quiet NULL pointer sparse noise H Hartley Sweeten
2012-06-08  6:46 ` Ian Abbott
2012-06-08  6:51   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-08  9:07     ` Ian Abbott
2012-06-08  9:48       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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